The Theater Experience: With Theater Goer's Guide

very good book it is a keeper on how theater is run even though I used it for a humanities course that I will never have to have again.

I bought this book for an intro to Theater class that requires the 11th edition. I figured I'd give saving some money a shot, then went through the chapters and compared the chapter titles with the chapter titles in the syllabus after classes started. Wouldn't you know it, they ended up being the same chapters with occasional renaming, but back one. For example, chapter four in the eleventh edition is the same as chapter three in this one. (Chapter 5, aka chapter 4 in the 10th edition, has a different title: "Stage Spaces" became "Theater Spaces.") Otherwise, from what I can tell, they're practically similar. How did this happen, you ask? The introductory chapter in the tenth edition doesn't have a chapter number, and in the eleventh edition, it got one.

I purchased this text for a theatre appreciation course, and found it invaluable. Information is presented at the college level (unlike many textbooks), and the illustrations and photographs are outstanding. Highly recommended.

I had to get this book for my theatre appreciation class. it taught me alot that i didnt really think about when i went to see a play....thought provoking.

This is a great book that is chock-full of useful information. It doesn't skip a beat by covering all aspects of different writings and the writer. I highly reccommend this book.